LHDL data collection, fourth release: skeleton body-level template and femur Computer Tomography (CT) dataset PDF | Print | E-mail

The Computational Bioengineering Lab –BIC- by the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli in Bologna (Italy) announces the release of the fourth selection of data belonging to the Living Human Digital Library –LHDL- multiscale musculoskeletal data collection, relative to LHDL_Donor1.

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Interview: VPH to save lives (by Prof. Peter Harris, University of Melbourne) PDF | Print | E-mail

given to Radio Australia by Prof. Peter Harris, University of Melbourne, on March 15th, 2010.

Virtual Human to Save Lives

Revolutionising medicine with the building of the world's first "virtual human"

Interview transcript available here.

Statute of the VPH Institute open to public revision PDF | Print | E-mail

The Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) Institute will be an European institute entirely dedicated to the Biomedical Integrative Research, whose member are all private and public institutions that are involved with VPH research and integrative biomedicine. As part of the statutory process, the draft statute of the VPH Institute, which defines among the other things its governance model, is now open for public discussion and comment within the VPH community.

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Expert view on the VPH by Ilias Iakovidis PDF | Print | E-mail

In the opinion and analysis section of E-health Europe Issue 147  Ilias Iakovidis, the acting head of ICT for Health Unit, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission, explains more of the thinking behind the massive ‘virtual physiological human’ project.

The idea is to create a digital human in which research data, clinical trials information and personal data can be combined to produce better treatment and medication plans. Both projects have a long way to go. But they provide a glimpse of the potential of IT for delivering more efficient, more personalised medicine to healthcare systems. 

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